Turpentine-cup.



No. 792,488. PATENTED JUNE 18, 1905.

A. S. WHITE & G. L. GARDNER.

TURPENTINE 0UP.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. s. 1905.

I I I I l l I I indness UNITED STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT SIDNEY W'HITE AND GEORGE L. GARDNER, OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA.

,TURPENTINE-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,483, dated June 13,1905. Application filed January 3, 1905. Serial No. 239,458.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,ALBERT SIDNEY WHITE and GEORGE L. GARDNER, citizensof the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleansand State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Turpentine-Cups; and we do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in turpentine-cups intended to bedetachably connected to a pine-tree beneath one or more gashes in thebark thereof; and the said invention consists of an improved form of cupstruck or pressed out of a single blank of metal without any solderingor riveting of the parts, which has the bowl thereof corrugated andconnected to a flexible top plate made integral with the bowl, wherebygreat flexibility of the device is secured, which will enable the saiddevice to be readily fitted to the contour of the tree.

Our invention will be understood by reference to the accompanyingdrawings, in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters ornumerals throughout the several views.

Figure 1 shows a portion of the trunk of a tree with the cup attachedthereto. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the cup as detached from the tree, andFig. 3 is a front view of the cup and shows the contour of the plate orblank from which the bowl of the cup is pressed up in dotted lines.

Referring first to Fig. 3, a suitable flat metal plate or blank of thecontour indicated by the top edge 1., the rounded corners 2, thestraight sides 3, and the curved base 4 is struck or pressed up to theshape shown in full lines and shaded in Figs. 2 and 3. The result is thecup having a flat bottom 5, a corrugated bowl 6, fiat along the back,and a top or flap 8, which is preferably perforated with nail-holes 9.These nail-holes are preferably made large enough to readily slide overthe heads of suitable nails, so that the cup may be applied to the treeand removed therefrom from time to time, as occasion may require.

It is obvious that the rounded corners 2 may be made angular, ifdesired.

In order to apply the cup to the tree, it is bent to fit snugly againstthe face of the tree below one or more gashes a in the bark of the tree,as shown in Fig. 1, and nails 6 are then driven through the holes 9.

Owing to the corrugations of the bowl the device'may be snugly fitted byhand against the face of the tree, and it will be obvious that it may beremoved from time to time when required.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. 'A turpentine-cup constructed of a single blank of metal having aflexible top plate and a corrugated bowl dependent therefrom andintegral therewith, substantially as described.

2. A turpentine-cup constructed of a single blank of metal having aflexible top plate, a corrugated bowl dependent therefrom and integraltherewith, and nail-holes in said top plate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof We have afiixed our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

ALBERT SIDNEY WHITE. GEORGE L. GARDNER. Witnesses:

JNo. B. FIsHER, M. MARTY.

